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DBMS > Dgraph vs. Graph Engine vs. HarperDB vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Graph Engine vs. HarperDB vs. RDF4J

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NameDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineUltra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Document storeRDF store
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Score1.53
Rank#152  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#232  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#34  Key-value stores
Score0.60
Rank#244  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websitedgraph.iowww.graphengine.iowww.harperdb.iordf4j.org
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docswww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualdocs.harperdb.io/­docsrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.MicrosoftHarperDBSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release2016201020172004
Current release3.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT Licensecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageGo.NET and CNode.jsJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
.NETLinux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesdynamic schemayes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoJSON data typesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like data manipulation statementsno
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesCustom Functions infosince release 3.1yes
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyeshorizontal partitioningA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusternone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication via Raftyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definednone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoAtomic execution of specific operationsACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyes, using LMDByes infoin-memory storage is supported as well
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoPlanned for future releasesAccess rights for users and rolesno

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